Not having the day job has given me a new imaging experience – the ability to image during June 🙂 With the day job I used to give up imaging half way through May (if not earlier) due to the … Continue reading
Managed to grab 7 x 10 minute subs on all 3 mini-WASP cameras before the cloud I had been watching finally arrived from France. Glad really as it meant I could have an early 12:30 a.m. night. This is open … Continue reading
Last night it was beautifully clear and Moonless and was probably one of the best imaging runs I’ve ever had. Apart from the highly anti-social hours of course as I couldn’t start imaging much before 11:00 p.m. which meant shutting … Continue reading
Yes – another single star picture for this month’s Image of the Month. Polaris, the Pole star, the North star, Alpha Ursa Minor – the Navigator’s friend. I like this region of space because 1) It is rarely imaged and … Continue reading
I have just seen that I got Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) number 47 on May 25th for “Imaging Diatoms”. I can only imagine that I missed this because I had been working over the allotment all day … Continue reading
I had an electric focuser lying around so with a pulley and timing belt from Radiospares I put together an electric focuser rig for the Canon 5D MkII and the 100mm macro lens that took the mega-wide-field Virgo/Coma galaxies shot. … Continue reading
For the second test of the newly aligned M25C camera on the Hyperstar III I chose the Stephenson 1 region of Lyra. Although I didn’t have the optics spot-on they were pretty close and I’m quite pleased with the resulting … Continue reading
Recently imaged M57 as a test-shot for the recently flattened M25C chip. This is 14 x 5-minute subs with a blazing nearly full Moon overhead. Looks pretty reasonable considering 🙂
The Hyperstar III is so fast that all other amateur imaging systems are extremely slow and have very disappointing performance in comparison – and that includes the mini-WASP array as currently configured.
Feynman left us many interesting facts/tools and one of the most powerful I have ever come across was his observation that “The same equations have the same solutions”. By this he means that equations of the same form have similar solutions. Now … Continue reading
